acre

Definitions

nAcrea town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean

nAcrea territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru

nacrea unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
Soy crayons have been invented to replace wax crayons and one acre of soybeans can produce over 80,000 crayons

AcreA piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English."I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial ground, God's acre ."

AcreAny field of arable or pasture land.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

nacreOriginally. an open plowed or sowed field. This signification was gradually lost after the acre was made a definite measure of surface. Still used in the plural to denote fields or land in general.

nacreA superficial measure of land, usually stated to be 40 poles in length by 4 in breadth; but 160 perches (= 4840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet) make an acre, however shaped. An acre, as a specific quantity of land, was reckoned in England as much as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day till the establishment of a definite measure by laws of the thirteenth century and later. This is known in Great Britain and the United States as the statute acre, to distinguish it from the customary acres still in use to some extent in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The Scotch acre is larger than the statute acre, as it contains 6150.4 square yards, 48 Scotch acres being equal to 61 statute acres. The Irish acre is 7840 square yards, 100 Irish acres being nearly equivalent to 162 statute acres. In Wales different measures, the erw, the stang, the paladr, are called acres. The true erw is 4320 square yards; the stang is 3240. There is also the Cornish acre, of 5760 square yards. Among the customary English acres are found measures of the following numbers of perches: 80 (of hops), 90 (of hops), 107, 110, 120 (shut acre), 130, 132, 134, 141, 180 (forest acre), 200 (for copyhold land in Lincolnshire), 212, 256 (of wood). The Leicestershire acre has 2308¾ square yards, the Westmoreland acre 6760 square yards, the Cheshire acre 10,240 square yards. Often abbreviated to A. or adjective

Quotations

“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”

Earl Nightingale

“You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.”

Earl Warren

“Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.”

Idioms

All over Hell's half acre - (USA) If you have been all over Hell's half acre, you have been traveling and visiting many more places than originally intended, usually because you were unsuccessful in finding what you were looking for. It can also be used to mean everywhere.

The state is looking for developers to transform the sites, an 8-acre parcel on the northeast corner of Hempstead Turnpike and Cross Island Parkway and a 28-acre parcel on the southeast corner, which are currently zoned for residential use.

WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has turned away an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, including 46,000 acres on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Eclipse Development Group of California is planning a 300,000-square-foot outlet center called the Maui Outlets on 30 acres and a second shopping center, Pi'ilani Promenade, on a 45-acre parcel in South Maui.

After living in various cities and towns in Washington and Oregon most of Brian’s life, the family decided to move to Whitetail, Montana—the home town of Brian’s father, and the location of a 4,000 acre family farm.

Variational Principles in General Relativity

There it was found numerically that there exists a critical capillary number C acr, above which no static solution exists, in agreement with the experimental ﬁndings described above.

Hydrodynamic theory of de-wetting

At the critical capillary number C acr the only remaining parameter, which is α, can be determined from the condition that κ∞ should be minimal, in other words Ai(s1 ) must be maximal among solutions of (7).

Hydrodynamic theory of de-wetting

Hocking found that the present slip theory correctly predicts C acr /θ3 e to be a constant, but overestimates this constant by a factor of two, if reasonable values for the slip length λ are assumed.

Hydrodynamic theory of de-wetting

Moreover, the analysis of correlations acr oss all simultaneous network-wide trafﬁc has been used in netwo rk distributed attacks detection .

Even for k = +1 case, once the cosmic scale factor a(t/l) arrives at critical size acr such as acr = q2(d − 1)/(d − 2)Λ, and then the universe continues eternal expansion.

Classical Geometry of De Sitter Spacetime : An Introductory Review

A parcel covering approximately two acres is available at the top of Mill Street near the Ross head frame. This site could be prepared for building by relocating or demolishing some homes, and by cutting and grading this hill site to create a level building site.

Reference Design Project Book: NUSEL-Homestake

The six-acre Mill Street site is shown on site Figure #2 in the Facilities Development section.

Reference Design Project Book: NUSEL-Homestake

The acceptances acr and acr are evaluated using the MC, with data-driven corrections as explained in Secs.

Precise measurement of Gamma(Ks->pi+pi-(gamma))/Gamma(Ks->pi0pi0) with the KLOE detector at DAFNE